The Double Agents (Men at War) by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Double Agents (Men at War)
Book Review: Popcorn while waiting for the plane
Summary: 1 Stars
What with shoe searches and all, we have to get to the airport earlier and earlier and now we can't even smuggle a couple little bottles in our carry-ons or a knife to cut some fruit. Oh well, kill some waiting time reading the Griffins. No pretense to great literature here and the historical spatterings have descended into trivia. This tale of the second man who never was is a fanciful concoction unworthy of the dry martinis stirred up in it. Maybe we need nore old-fashioned Eastwood style in your face Kelley's Heroes if the Griffs are going to do comedy. This was a bit too close to Marx Bros seltzer epics. Then it was topped off with a screen romance amnesiac "Oh, that's who I am! Oh I must have been bombed by the blitz or blitzed by the bomb." Oh well, we all know what to expect, once we expected better stuff, but this really is pop history and patch work at that. It will pass the time.Book Review: Quick and Dirty review....
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is only just OK. It takes a while to spin up and quite a while to spin down. Reminds me of an overly frenetic history book. I didn't mind when I skimmed the last few chapters just to say good riddance and start on something new...Book Review: Save your money - get it at the Library
Summary: 1 Stars
Mr. Griffin must be sliding from fiction in to being a food critic! There are more pages and details about meals and foods than there is action. A far cry from the excellent books Mr. Griffin has written in the past. May be it is Mr. Butterworth's contributions, but this book was a MAJOR disappointment to me. I have read all of Mr. Griffin's books but will think twice before buying another one based on this one. C'mon WEB, get back to basics and the GREAT way you wrote your previous novels. Leave the food to the food critics and out of your books.Book Review: Signposts and miles
Summary: 1 Stars
Much in agreement with the other reviews above with the addition of a small point which annoys British readers. Authors seem unaware that all road signposts were removed during the WWII (to confuse German parachutists) and Britain has never used kilometers as a road measure.Book Review: Sins of the son.
Summary: 3 Stars
It is evident that WEB Griffin's son is writing more of the story of this novel. The action is not a crisp and the narrative drags at times.